The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-01-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK

21st inst.
Dallas, Texas, was visited by fir,
Wednesday which consumed three of thu
finest buildings in the city, causing los
of over 100000.
A New York policeman firing at flee
ing prisoner shot and killed a young mar
named Carroll, who was standing in from
of his fathers drug store.
One hundred soldiers and seven manda
rims were drowned by the collision Of &
British steamer with Chinese transport
off Shanghai, in which the latter was sunk
BY the burning Of the corral of G. l.
Gold s. Co. of Denver, twenty two head
of blooded cattle, eleven mules and three
thoroughbred horses were burned tc
death. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
Mrs. VanZandt and daughter, the latter
who was to have married the anarchist
Spies IN his prison cell at Chicago last
week, are going to Europe, there to re-
main until decision is reached in Spies
case.
As the Texas Pacific express train was
pulling out Of Gordon, Texas, Sunday
night it was boarded by masked men, who
rifled the express car and got away with
a $4,000 bocdle. The passengers were
not molestcd.
A united labor convention in New York
lately adopted resolution declaring that
the employment Of special detectives by
private individuals and corporations was
a glaring imposition and violation Of
American liberty.
France is buying large quantities of
sulphuric ether from German manufactur-
ers. This is an ingredient in the new ex-
plosivc called nielinite, and the supplies
turned out by the French factories proved
inadequate to the demand from the war
The Indians on the Colville reservation
in Washington territory are said to BE- in
a most pitiablc condition. Smallpox
prevails among them and the snow has
been so deep as to prevent hunting, their
main dependence, the government sup
plies not being sufficient to support them.
The executive committee of District 40,
Knights of Labor, of New York, at a
meeting Wednesday decided to advise all
men employed in any way on steamships
'r about them, in the slowing or placing
# their cargoes, or carting or transferring
'r supplying coal, to stop work for three
lays. This action will make 17,0G0 men
,uit work.
Albuquerque special of the 25th says:
The Democrat, tomorrow morning, will
publish strange story, to the effect that
esse James is not dead but living in the
vilds of Arizona, near Phoenix. The ar
icle is based on an interview with a re-
liable gentleman from Phoenix. He Of
ers chain of circumstantial evidence
most convincing that the alleged assassin
alton was all ruse.
A joint resolution providing for joint
ommittec to confer with like commit
ee of the Montana Legislature to devise
teps for the prevention Of the spread of
ontagious diseases among cattle, has
assed the Dakota legislature and a
memorial providing for an appropriation
f 100000 for the improvement Of roads
nd bridges in the National Park has
cen reported favorably by the commit
Joseph Armstrong and Frank Holmes
Pentrecher, Mich, have been hunting
I'd trapping in Delta county several
eeks. Saturday, while setting their
APPS, Holmes cut his leg badly, and his
went for help. Within an
,ur he returned, to find only bloody
ones and some scraps of clothing, a
cody axe and revolver. Round about
ere the carcases of five wolves which
dimes had killed in his fight for life.
A Chicagoian by the name of King has
en enriching his purse by series of
fe poisonings that is shocking. He
IS married three different times in as
any years, each wife dying very sud
n and mysteriously after marriage.
lortly af the death of his third wife and
ly few days ago, a step daughter with
1om he was living took sick and died.
mysterious was the circumstances at
nding her death that an investigation
IS made and it was found that her life
Is insured as had also been each of his
yes. A chemical analysis of the girls {
,mach was made and traces of arsenic {
und in every vital part. King is under I
rest and an analysis is now being made '
the remains of the third wife.
A sewer one quarter of a mile in length t
ming under the town of Niagara Falls {
rms part of the bed of Muddy creek, {
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